[SC.LUG] Memory Lane, & Quo Vadis

[Srdjan Todorovic]

Hi all,

(I'm no longer in Cheshire, but still seem to be on the mailing list :D )

On 2 June 2010 22:18, Richard Smedley <smedley358 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Going through some old Linux Format magazines for a bibliography,
> I came across the small feature on SC.LUG (p112, LXF 36, Jan 2003).
> It was just after the talk by Anthony Holloway of Jodrell Bank
> on their 180-CPU Beowulf cluster, given at the Trafford Arms in
> Alderley Edge.

Hmm "Cobra" I believe. Walked around that machine about 4 years ago.
Cool blue lights. Used for simulating astronomical phenomena (not sure
just how much is non-classified information so I will not go into it).

> Who else was there? & who remembers the first meeting, 3 years
> before that, gathered in a circle in the non-smoking room
> at The Commercial in Wheelock?

Spookily enough, I had my first LUG meet, and also my first SCLUG meet
there (but maybe in 2003/2004). I used to live close by.

> I gather from the small SC.LUG turnout at Alsager that there's
> not quite the same appetite for more meetings, so where next
> for SC.LUG? Is there still a role for LUGs now that it's all
> so easy?

The LUG I'm with (ALUG) is quite informal and we just go to the pub
every month for a chat on technical and non-technical issues. I think
some LUGs are now more a social event than technical help workshops
(that's what mailing lists and IRC are for ;) ).

Regards,
Srdjan